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ABSTRACT
1Introduction
This paper is about the relationship between the stock market and the un- employment rate. It has three parts. First, I establish that there has been a high correlation between unemployment and the stock market in U.S. data since 1929. I use post-war quarterly data to estimate a bivariate time series model of unemployment and the real value of the stock market and I show that this model remained structurally stable before and after 1979. Second, I compare three simple theoretical models of the economy; a classical model, a Keynesian model and a "Farmerian model", based on a series of recent books and papers (Farmer, 2008, 2009, 2010a,b,c,d, 2011). I evaluate the ability of each of these models to explain the Great Recession of 2008 and I argue that the Farmerian model provides the most plausible explanation of events. Third, I explain why I have advocated (Farmer, December 30th 2008) a policy of asset market intervention to restore full employment rather than a traditional Keynesian policy ofÞscal stimulus. I present some evidence which shows that the Keynesian consumption function has not remained stable in the post-war period and I explain that evidence by showing that increases in government purchases since 1929 have been accompanied by o setting changes in private consumption expenditure. The behavior of household consumption is consistent with the work of Friedman (1957) who showed that consumers respond to permanent income, or wealth, and not to transitory income. My work explains why high unemployment can persist for long periods of time. Although my explanation is rooted in Keynesian ideas, it goes beyondThe General Theory(Keynes, 1936) by providing an original micro- founded explanation for labor market failure. Unlike the new-Keynesian version ofThe General Theory, my explanation of recessions does not rely 1 on the assumption that prices are sticky. 1 The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents a brief review of related literature. Sections 3, 4 and 5 present empirical evidence on the rela- tionship between the stock market and unemployment in U.S. data. Section6 evaluates that evidence in the light of three alternative economic models
classical and Keynesian models. Section 9 provides a short conclusion.2 Wealth and Unemployment in the Litera-
ture Much recent work in empirical macroeconomics analyzes data that have been detrended with the Hodrick-PrescottÞlter (Hodrick and Prescott, 1997). Be- cause it removes a dierent trend from each series, the HP-Þlter masks an important correlation between wealth and unemployment that operates at low to medium frequencies. In my work, I detrend data by dividing nom- inal consumption and nominal wealth by the money wage. The resulting detrended consumption and wealth series are very persistent and highly cor- related with unemployment. My focus in this paper is on this correlation. Empirical work by Lettau and Ludvigson (2004) found a low-frequency connection between consumption and wealth and, in a recent extension of their earlier work, Lettau and Ludvigson (2011) provide a statistical model of consumption, wealth and labor earnings as non-stationary time series that are cointegrated. In this paper I show that wealth andunemploymenthave a similar representation as non-stationary cointegrated time series and I pro- vide a theory that connects all of these pieces together. The connection between stock market wealth and unemployment was recognized by Phelps (1999) who pointed out that the stock market boom of 1 Galí (2008) provides a good introduction to the new-Keynesian paradigm. 2 the 1990s was accompanied by a reduction in the unemployment rate. Fi- toussi, Jestaz, Phelps, and Zoega (2000) found a similar correlation between the stock market and unemployment for a variety of European countries. Fol- lowing Phelps (1999) and Hoon and Phelps (1992), these authors explained this connection using Phelps' (1994) structuralist model of the natural rate of unemployment. In Phelps' model, expectations of future proÞts causeÞrms
to invest in customer relationships and employee training. In contrast, the theory I develop in this paper explains the connection between stock market wealth and unemployment with a model of multiple equilibria. In my work, any unemployment rate can be a steady state equi- librium and changes in aggregate demand have a permanent eect on the equilibrium unemployment rate. 2 In the model I describe in this paper, labor is continuallyÞred and rehired. As a consequence of this simplifying assumption, the price of capital and the value of the stock market are the same variable. In the data (see for example the paper by Gomme, Ravikumar, and Rupert (2011)), they have very dierent time-series properties and the stock price is much more volatile than the price of capital. In the full dynamic version of the model developed in Farmer (2011), unemployment is a state variable of theÞrm, similar to the capital stock. Here, the stock price will dier from the price of capital. It is an open question as to whether the more general model can replicate the volatility of the stock price that we see in the data. 2 My explanation for persistent unemployment is closer to the models of hysteresis de- scribed by Blanchard and Summers (1987, 1986) and Ball (1999) than the structuralist model of Phelps although the theoretical foundation for persistent unemployment in my work is very dierent from the one provided in those papers. Models based on new- Keynesian economics (see Galí and Gertler(1999)), cannot account for persistent unem- ployment. 33 Wealth and Aggregate Demand
Tangible assets in the U.S. are held in the form of factories, machines and houses. Factories and machines are equal to roughly three times GDP; resi- dential real estate comprises an additional two times GDP. Figure 1 shows the history of these two components of tangible assets beginning in theÞrst quarter of 1929 and ending in theÞrst quarter of 2011. The stock market variable is the value of the S&P 500 divided by a measure of the money wage. When a nominal series is detrended in this way I will saythatitismeasuredinwageunits. 3The measure of housing wealth is my
own estimate, constructed as follows. I multiplied Shiller's historical house price index by the U.S. population and I divided it by the money wage. I multiplied the data by population estimate is based on the assumption that the ratio of people to houses was constant. 4 To construct the wealth index reported in Figure 2, I took0072times my housing wealth variable and I added it to00052times the S&P in wage units. These weights were chosen to give a wealth index that is25housing and 35stocks, and that has a mean of100over the period from1929through
2011. The proportions of25and35were chosen to match the proportions
of housing to other tangible assets in Federal Reserve Flow of Funds data. 5 3 The use of wage units to detrend data is a novel technique that I developed and explainedinmybookExpectations Employment and PricesFarmer (2010b). The money wage increases because of growth in the real economy and because of inßation. Detrending by the money wage removes both sources of growth and renders nominal series stationary. 4 Robert Shiller's housing data are available quarterly from 1953q1 through 2011. Be- fore that date I interpolated the annual series to provide quarterly estimates from 1929. Shiller's data are available at 'http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/'. 5 I use the S&P as a measure of wealth because it is available back to1929. My empirical work is robust to the use of the measure of household wealth held as stocks reported in the Federal Reserve Flow of Funds data. That measure moves closely with the S&P500 in the post-war period. 4 300400
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